February 19th, 2009 · Comments Off

[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Per our photographer, who creates the wonderful Sunset Park-based Best View in Brooklyn blog: “5th Avenue, across from Sunset Park. Its friend, the backless, black office chair, is a few feet down the block.”

[Photo courtesy of DumboNYC/GL Flickr Pool] We’re excited. This is, we believe, our first ever Dumbo Street Couch. It’s in front of Powerhouse Arena and if we’re not mistaken, we’re seeing two couches and a matress.

February 16th, 2009 · Comments Off

[Photo courtesy of Jennifer Dunne/GL Flickr Pool] This is the first Windsor Terrace street couch we’ve ever had that we can recall. It is somewhat cropped from the original, and we apologize to the kind contributor for that, but to see the original click here.

February 10th, 2009 · Comments Off

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[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] The sofa comes to us from 56th Street and Sixth Avenue in Sunset Park. The picture is from the blogger behind Best View in Brooklyn who does a superb job covering her community.

January 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

The Wolverine Chair of Keap Street survives. It is deteriorating from weather. The stuff sitting atop it changes from time to time. In early January, it was metal and cups. Back in early December, it was a plastic bag. The other day it was a bottle of Corona and some juice type liquid. Also, someone […]

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Yes, we know. This is clearly not a couch or a sofa. It is a chair, making it street furniture. What we like about this speciment from Diamond Street in Greenpoint is the beer on the chair. Looks like a Corona. No lime.

January 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

This chair which appears to have been attacked by wolverines has been in the same spot on Ainslie Street in Williamsburg just east of the BQE for more than a month now. The only thing that changes, from time to time, is what is sitting atop it, although it does appear to have deteriorated slightly.

December 31st, 2008 · Comments Off

[Photo for GL courtesy of New York Shitty] We end our 2008 Street Couch Series with a grand finale worthy of New Year’s Eve. It has the couch. It has the church building built in 1953. And it has the graffiti that says “fuck.” Perfection for the final hours of what has been quite a […]

December 17th, 2008 · Comments Off

December 15th, 2008 · Comments Off

[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/Gl Photo Pool] To not only get a pic of a street couch of Ocean Parkway, but have it leather and include a sofabed is magic. This comes courtesy of GL Contributor and Master Southern Brooklyn Photographer lornagrl.

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Miss Heather, who found this chair on Ainslie Street near Keap Street east of the BQE calls this the Wolverine Chair because it looks like it has been set on by wolverines. We came across this chair a few days later and it was still sitting there looking just as […]